Scenes From A Vinyl Recliner Toad The Wet Sprocket

High on a wire Poised for an imminent fall Clowns always smile Greasepaint and lust in their pores Start to sway and I hold your hand Fall, the smile surrounds his head Hot ashes, clay Hot ashes fade To

Hold Her Down Toad The Wet Sprocket

until she she stops kicking And they don't know her But what the f**k They got nothing else they can do And there's no reason But still they come And I Would have a hard time facing you This crime

In My Ear Toad The Wet Sprocket

didn't know, they were a part of it i can't tell it would seem...there's a lot that i don't know but here i am, and i'm standing with the perfect view i could not go far enough away from you i've

Dam Would Break Toad The Wet Sprocket

Is it this place that makes me fall from you forget the words that once rang so true did we expect that life was ever fair, my god...

Way Away Toad The Wet Sprocket

Line of people to pass you by Posing sympathy with its whitewash eyes With the ladies feigning their mourning cries And the men shaking hands: Weigh away Way away All the pictures in your mind As

Hold Her Down (Remix) Toad The Wet Sprocket

hold her down, hold her down, hold her down Until she stops moving Take her arms and hold her down, hold her down, hold her down, hold her down Until she stops kicking And they don't know her but what the

Stupid Toad The Wet Sprocket

Four times he came by, I did not look Talked about the reservoir, his thumbs were hooked On his carpenter's belt, and he squinted in the sun Smiled wide many times, I think I smiled back once And

Hobbit On The Rocks Toad The Wet Sprocket

There's an old Virginian vibraphone With a calculated gait And a man who thinks he's Al Capone With a cumberbund and cape Don't criticize what a vicar would prize in you And talk to the man if you

Little Man Big Man Toad The Wet Sprocket

little man big man who came first what is the measure of our worth if there was a storm rolled in who'd run inside who'd go walking little man big man what's inside it's all in the places where

High On A Riverbed Toad The Wet Sprocket

Why try When everything I do seems half right How can I be satisfied Writing words from someone's else's lies But sometimes I'm standing here High on a riverbed And light breaks through Everything feels

Crowing Toad The Wet Sprocket

Been waiting To find You could've been happier Given the time If he'd make up his mind You'd give yourself to anybody Who would cross that line chorus: And it was never question He was crowing

Fly From Heaven Toad The Wet Sprocket

Paul is making me nervous Paul is making me scared Walk into this room and swaggers Like he's God's own messenger Changed the name of my brother Changed the things that he said Says that he speaks

Come Back Down Toad The Wet Sprocket

i've come here a thousand times, some things never change "yes i will, anything you say" i've quit this a million times, can't quite stay away just one more time...i'll be ok but i'm so damn tired

Come Back Down (Album Version) Toad The Wet Sprocket

i've come here a thousand times, some things never change "yes i will, anything you say" i've quit this a million times, can't quite stay away just one more time...i'll be ok but i'm so damn tired when

Reincarnation Song Toad The Wet Sprocket

I thought I'd be alright today I thought I'd be alive today Give me your eyes, I'll show you things You never dreamed you thought you'd see I found myself in a light I'd seen in sleep sometimes or

Don't Go Away Toad The Wet Sprocket

> we were sharing so many words and feelings age is heavier, it seems, than years alone but, i told you things i wouldn't dream of telling anyone are we drifting out, like flowers from a forgotten someone

Know Me Toad The Wet Sprocket

Should I have believed I was still a boy Naive and sane, protected wholly Tongue-tied and restless Breathing of futures Know me; I am not a child 'Though you have age You have not felt the pain...

All She Said Toad The Wet Sprocket

to mooon6pence from shootingstar will my bride sleep tonight softly believe the words as always lying and she sleeps and dreams lord knows what but it's not for me to be there and she knows she

Inside Toad The Wet Sprocket

Free my heart to feel again Free my mind to understand To run undeterred Pull the blinders from my eyes Let me see the endless skies And drown here where I stand In the beauty of the land chorus

Chicken Toad The Wet Sprocket

Written by Toad The Wet Sprocket He has many faces Full moon cycle changes Why leave the cages Why question nature How is it better Not in the world and not wanting He give any reason Full moon

Nightingale Song Toad The Wet Sprocket

we sing the nightingale song alive streets never border further than my eyes we sing the nightingale song alive we might be different but our hearts won't lie and little ever changes if anything at

All Right Toad The Wet Sprocket

Losing my aim losing time And after Ten in the morning I find It matters But it's all right this time Pulls from the tether to rise And shatters Caught in the wind far and wide It scatters If

Good Intentions Toad The Wet Sprocket

hard to rely on my own good senses when i miss so much that requires attention have to laugh at myself sometimes and i can see that i'm not blind there's little relief give us reprieve for all the

Amnesia Toad The Wet Sprocket

here, i need your help deliver me from myself take me where i'm wanted or make me someone else I dont care what they said forget about the things you read it was something you'll never know never

Janitor Toad The Wet Sprocket

Written by Toad The Wet Sprocket Been two weeks now Kitchen stinks now Finally got the guts to saunter in And don a pair of gloves And the janitor sleeping in a drum Janitor I've become Bubbles

Are We Afraid Toad The Wet Sprocket

\Wasn't it hard And did we want penance Summer's so long Colder men when their ice prayer never came Didn't we fight it And weren't we hard Holding back a friend of mine All the way coming home

Butterflies Toad The Wet Sprocket

A man drove up in an ugly car And he flashed his lights at everything he saw And his eyes were red and his stereo was So loud you couldn't hear the engine's roar He yelled at everybody in the road

She Cried Toad The Wet Sprocket

Solitaire, such a fateful game She turns her cards and writes her name on the napkin Mow she turns another card She dreams about the house and romance He promised but won't deliver She waits alone With

Nothing Is Alone Toad The Wet Sprocket

Something rushes over me And I find myself standing here Lift my eyes up to the sky And offer a silent prayer Sometime all the shouting stops And the restlessness loses hold And I cry out to everything

I Think About Toad The Wet Sprocket

Watching me A bird upon a roof with coal-black feathers Cocks his head To catch my eye Wandering and unfocused I cannot meet his stare He takes to wing Silhouette against the sun Surrounded by the glare

Crazy Life Toad The Wet Sprocket

anyway now, it don't seem right he is in there and you're on the outside over pine ridge to wounded knee there's blood on the ground as far as you see crazy life in the air i'm sensing a change in

Is It For Me Toad The Wet Sprocket

bradley says it's haunted the house upon the hill and if we meet at four a.m.

Throw It All Away Toad The Wet Sprocket

take your cautionary tales take your incremental gain and all the sychophantic games and throw 'em all away burn your tv in your yard and gather 'round it with your friends and warm your hands upon

So Alive Toad The Wet Sprocket

Soft between these sheets I shiver I move in time My thoughts collide and body whispers Am I alive This place will speak its language to me I slip inside A breath escapes and I fly with it I'm so

Begin Toad The Wet Sprocket

days of sorrow Endless more in sight Still you child burn bright And you see me crying again And you hold out your little hand Lead me shaking to his room I thought I'd never see again Close the

Jam Toad The Wet Sprocket

one more time he says good-night turns out the door and off the light cursing low as if she didn't know one more time he'd comfort her as if a word could break through her she's so quiet and he's

Jam (Album Version) Toad The Wet Sprocket

one more time he says good-night turns out the door and off the light cursing low as if she didn't know one more time he'd comfort her as if a word could break through her she's so quiet and he's sick

Silo Lullaby Toad The Wet Sprocket

green button like a lantern illuminates this cavern and outside nothing matters anymore my instinct won't deceive me my senses will not leave me when there's no one left to grieve me I won't mourn

Silo Lullaby (Album Version) Toad The Wet Sprocket

green button like a lantern illuminates this cavern and outside nothing matters anymore my instinct won't deceive me my senses will not leave me when there's no one left to grieve me I won't mourn good

Before You Were Born Toad The Wet Sprocket

how can it happen that every time you ask us this question the answer seems like a lie you know what we're saying and you know what it means and it's always sincere god knows but it never gets through

All Things In Time Toad The Wet Sprocket

call me up when you need strangers often deceive and there's something so freeing to call out a name and someone's believing i've been changing my mind through with looking behind it's a crash course

Stories I Tell Toad The Wet Sprocket

don't give me answers for i would refuse "yes" is a word for which i have no use and i wasn't looking for heaven or hell just someone to listen to stories i tell now what is a blessing and what is

Listen Toad The Wet Sprocket

Well I wonder do we learn Seems we're making the same wrong turn Call you sacred Call you obscene Call you faithless Call you anything Call and you listen chorus: Listen Listen Listen I'm a

Corporal Brown Toad The Wet Sprocket

And likes to go and fish Corporal's wife was quite fat And was raving like a bitch And I'm a bit drunk as I watch They are yelling loud, he throws a punch Oh lord, what am I gonna do?

One Wind Blows Toad The Wet Sprocket

Wouldn't know any more than home And couldn't see much further And light won't help A wound untended grows And never heals Standing face to east Waiting for an answer But the only sound is desert wind

Rings Toad The Wet Sprocket

are you the plane that shapes the board part of a history smoothed and worn and oh, the windy weather dry spells, brushfire isn't it strange to see my life you must cut me down to look inside

Chile Toad The Wet Sprocket

Be who you are If it fits in the system Say what you will But you might die if they listen They think in the politics of gasoline and torture Please only talk to me in the dark Write what you will If you

All In All Toad The Wet Sprocket

time is slower still half an hour is 30 days nothing moves at all this way hold on, i can wait life lies burning, i am only just as much as i can make myself and i lie burning, life is only just a

Liars Everywhere Toad The Wet Sprocket

Here in my mind is a wall I cant climb Dont listen now There are liars everywhere Deep in my heart is a stone I must cut Dont listen now There are liars everywhere Liars are everywhere

Walk On The Ocean Toad The Wet Sprocket

we spotted the ocean at the head of the trail where are we going, so far away and somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better, everything's safe walk on the ocean step on the